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Python 3 Selenium Script to Calculate Google Directions Between Two Addresses and Save as PNG Image
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Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here: https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-selenium-script-to-calculate-google-directions-between-two-addresses-and-save-as-png-image/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a selenium
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python script which will uh actually
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take uh the screenshot of uh the Google
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map so between two locations it will
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show you the directions which directions
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you want to travel if you want to travel
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from one location to another so this is
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actually the Python script right here so
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if I execute this Python
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script so let me just show you the demo
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right here so as I execute this you will
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see it will ask you to input the
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starting address so you need to enter
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the source address and the destination
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so let's suppose I provide any address
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right
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here and then the
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destination uh let me just restart
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this so as soon as you enter your
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starting and the destination address
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then automatically selenium will open in
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the background it will open Google maps
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website it will take the screenshot and
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uh then it will save this as a image
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file jpg image file you will see
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direction screenshot has been
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saved so you can
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see it has taken that image
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automatically and you can see the
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directions if you want to travel from
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this location to this
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location it it just shows you the full
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route here full
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directions this image it also tells you
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the amount of time which will take to
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travel from this source to destination 1
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hour 20
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minute so all sort of information is
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there so this is happening using
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selenium which is a automation library
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inside Python so first of all you just
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need to install this so the command is
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very simple just search for this package
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here and uh the command is simple simply
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install this by executing this command
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i've already installed it so I've given
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this full script in the description of
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this video so if you need the full
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script here uh the link is given in the
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description so now let's get started so
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let me show you the script here so first
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of all you need to import the necessary
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packages so just need to write here from
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selenium we need to import the web
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driver and then again from the same
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package selenium we need to import this
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dot chrome
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options from this we just need to import
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the
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options once again from selenium webd
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driver
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common we need to import by and then
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lastly we also need to import the time
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module as well so these are all the
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packages which are needed so after
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importing these packages now we just
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need to actually receive this input from
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the user we will use the input function
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so here we will ask the user to enter
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the starting
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address and then the destination address
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once again we will ask the question so
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here the user will enter the
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address so after that we will actually
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call a function custom functions that I
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will define so here we pass the starting
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index starting address and the ending
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address so now we just need to define
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this function
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so now inside this function we need to
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initialize selenium uh
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library so the third argument is
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actually the output file name the image
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file name so you can give it a default
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name which will be directions screenshot
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dot jpg it can be jpg or png let me save
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it as
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jpg so this will be your starting
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address and this will be your ending
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address which will be passed so now
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inside this function the very first
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thing we need to do we need to
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initialize the chrome
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options we can initialize like this and
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after that we just need to add some
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argument here using this function so if
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you want to
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uh just do this task in the background
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then you can add this option of
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headless but if you want to see the
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browser opening then you can remove this
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option but I want the jog to be
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happening in the background so you can
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add this option headless after that you
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just need to add another argument here
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which will be
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d-wind and here you can specify the size
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of the window so I will say 1280 by
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720 it's a normal size of the window and
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after that we just need to initialize
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the selenium driver so for initializing
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it we simply say webdriver dot chrome
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and inside this we basically pass the
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options that we define here which is
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chrome
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options after defining this uh now we
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will actually write the code in try
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catch block so inside this we
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will receive this address and replace
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this by using this replace
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function so this we need to do for both
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the starting and the ending address that
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we are
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receiving so like
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this so then we need to construct the
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URL
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so we need to open this URL in the
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selenium browser which will be www
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google.com/maps
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and then here we need to specify the
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starting address and the ending
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address so now we need to open this URL
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programmatically for this we just need
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to call this get function we go to this
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URL and then we sleep for 6 seconds so
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that we can take the screenshot so the
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sleep method will actually pause on that
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page for 6 seconds to take the
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screenshot
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so after it takes the
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screenshot again we need to write this
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in the try block here so here we simply
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need to find this element so for finding
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the element in the page we have this
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method and here we specify by
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id so here we just need to provide this
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id so this will wait for the DOM element
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to load and then it will click on that
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element
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automatically so this is actually the
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power of selenium library it can do the
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task automatically for you so then we
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just need to wait for on for 1
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second and if the element is not there
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then we can simply say accept
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pass then we take the
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screenshot and after taking the
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screenshot we can save the screenshot on
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the local machine by we have this
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function save screenshot and we pass the
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location output
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file and then we can simply write a
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print statement that your screenshot has
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been successfully saved so
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uh that's all that we need to do and we
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just need to finally quit the driver so
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we will have the finally block which
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will here be we simply quit the selenium
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driver so this completes the application
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so it's a very simple application I
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showed you step by step so again if I
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execute this you will see it will ask
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you the starting address
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so here you can specify any address and
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then the destination
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address so now the window will
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open so it will take the screenshot
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so if I see the screenshot here you will
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see it will exactly tell you the
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distance how much time it will take it
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will draw the complete route and the
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directions which needs to so here this
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is your source address this is your
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destination address so for this we can
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see we are not using any sort of API for
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this so this is simply we are navigating
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through the uh URL simply pausing it for
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6 seconds taking the screenshot and
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saving it inside your local machine so
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so this is actually the selenium script
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for this uh the link is given in the
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description you can actually copy the
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script and also check out my website
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which is freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools